List entry Summary
This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.
Name: WREXHAM ROAD FARMHOUSE AND FARMBUILDINGS
List entry Number: 1138382
Location
WREXHAM ROAD FARMHOUSE AND FARMBUILDINGS, WREXHAM ROAD
The building may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.
| County |
District |
District Type |
Parish |
| Cheshire West and Chester | Unitary Authority | Eccleston |
National Park: Not applicable to this List entry.
Grade: II
Date first listed: 28-Aug-1973
Date of most recent amendment: Not applicable to this List entry.
Legacy System Information
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Legacy System: LBS
UID: 55338
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List entry Description
Summary of Building
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Reasons for Designation
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History
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Details
SJ 36SE ECCLESTON C.P. WREXHAM ROAD
(East side)
2/142 Wrexham Road Farmhouse
and Farmbuildings
28/8/1973
II
Farmhouse and buildings, 1880 (datestone), by John Douglas for 1st
Duke of Westminster. Stone-dressed brown brick with half-timbered
dormer gables to haylofts; red tile roofs. Symmetrical 2½ storey, 3
bay farmhouse (a:b:a); the central bay projects. Flemish gables with
balls at eaves; moulded string at first floor; tall shaped brick
chimneys; stone-dressed doorway with 3 panels over, under a
drip-mould; 6-panel door; iron casements (leaded glazing removed) in
large stone-mullioned openings. Covered passage (right) links house
to farm buildings. Later conservatory, left, in keeping.
Interior: 6-panel doors; closed string staircase.
Farmbuildings: 2 and 1 storey with steep roofs, picturesquely grouped
round a 3 sided court. 2 drifthouses (at entrance and back of yard)
under oak-framed gables carried on brackets from stone corbels.
Octagonal stair turret capped by small, spired, boarded dovecote.
Mullioned windows; boarded doors. The farm buildings include
shippons, haylofts, barn, cartshed and stabling. A good example of
Douglas' model farms for 1st Duke of Westminster.
Listing NGR: SJ3978763058
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National Grid Reference: SJ 39787 63058
Map
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